Waitress

I enjoyed this film, much more than some of the recent "blockbusters" because it focused on characters, and Keri Russell does a real nice job as Jenna and creates this character that you root for, but somehow you know she's doing some odd things like putting up with a controlling husband and has a dalliance while pregnant with her new doctor. Russell made me chuckle in her line deliveries as Jenna just schlepping through life until her pregnancy produces unexpected changes in her, in spite of her non-enthusiasm for the prospects of raising a child while in a horrible marriage. What's really impressive is how easily Russell can light up the screen when it is required for her character. Oh, and how she deals with life through her pies were nice metaphors throughout the film.

True, there are some weaknesses to the film, one being the one-dimensional controlling husband (but I see it that being Jenna's point of view for him, which allows me to accept her version of the husband and what a knuckleheaded self-involved baby of a man he is really is), and the ending is a little too convenient, but the changes brought on by motherhood is a nice development, and overcome most of the shortcomings of the film.

I give it 3.5 stars, or a grade of B+.